Bug 1500717 (CVE-2017-8786)

Summary:	CVE-2017-8786 pcre2: Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre2test.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	manisandro, ppisar
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Bug Depends On:	1500718, 1500719
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 11:27:29 UTC

pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.

Upstream issue:

https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2079

Upstream patches:

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=696
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=697

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-10-11 11:27:54 UTC

Created mingw-pcre2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-26 [bug 1500718]


Created pcre2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1500719]